World Premiere of 3 X 13, an interactive online performance
2021-02-18
ANNOUNCING THE WORLD PREMIERE OF 3 X 13
An Interactive Online Performance

Thursday, February 18
FREE/by donation

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Join us for the premiere of this interactive online performance co-presented by Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre and ArteEast, and receive exclusive online content from the artists, available for 48 hours.

Created by award-winning Director Eimi Imanishi and Choreographer Samar Haddad King, and produced by Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, 3 x 13 explores the singularity of the individual and the universality of the human experience. In 12 short films with original music by Lou Tides (TEEN, Here We Go Magic), 12 artists from around the globe share a journey of transformation that deeply marked their lives. These personal accounts of parenthood, loss, race, exile, dreams both realized and abandoned, all find expression through a common choreography for body and camera, offering an intimate glimpse into the performers’ inner and outer worlds.
The work culminates in an interactive 13th film that unites all 12 journeys in a virtual ensemble that invites audiences to chart their own course across 6 languages (with subtitles in Arabic and English) and 8 countries: Cuba, Egypt, France, Mali, Mexico, Palestine, South Korea, and the US.
On February 20, 3 x 13 will be widely released online for free, furthering YSDT’s mission to increase access to – and promote understanding through – the arts.

Laila Lalami & Mike Davis By UCR Writers Week 2021
2021-02-18 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
44th Annual Writers Week Conference 2021: Writers Week is the longest-running, free literary event in California and features the most renowned authors of our day alongside those at the start of promising careers. February 13 and 16-20, 2021
Laila Lalami
Contributing Editor, The Nation
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America (Knoph, 2020)
Mike Davis D. Charles Whitney Reader
Contributing Editor, The Nation
Set the Night on Fire: LA in the Sixties (Verso, 2020)

P&P Live!: Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick — Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
2021-02-19 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Friday, February 19, 2021 – 6 p.m.

This event will be streamed online as part of our P&P Live! Series.
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from a New York Times bestselling author and experts on U.S. policy in the region.
Hill and Plitnick provide a timely and essential intervention by examining multiple dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conversation, including Israel’s growing disdain for democracy, the effects of occupation on Palestine, the siege of Gaza, diminishing American funding for Palestinian relief, and the campaign to stigmatize any critique of Israeli occupation. Except for Palestine is a searing polemic and a cri de coeur for elected officials, activists, and everyday citizens alike to align their beliefs and politics with their values.
MARC LAMONT HILL is an award-winning journalist and the Steve Charles Professor of Media, Cities, and Solutions at Temple University. He is the author of multiple books, including the New York Times bestselling Nobody, and co-author (with Mitchell Plitnick) of Except for Palestine (The New Press). His newest book, We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility is a timely intervention into the popular movement for police abolition. He’s featured speaking for The Root here.
MITCHELL PLITNICK, the president of ReThinking Foreign Policy, is a political analyst and a frequent writer on the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy. His past roles include vice president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, director of the U.S. Office of B’Tselem, and co-director of Jewish Voice for Peace.

Movie: Advocate via Mideast Focus Ministry
2021-02-19 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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This film provides a fascinating look at the life and work of Jewish Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel who has represented Palestinian prisoners for nearly 50 years, in Israeli courts.
The film follows Jewish-Israeli human-rights lawyer Lea Tsemel as she navigates through the Israeli judicial system in defense of Palestinian political prisoners. The film includes archival footage of past cases Tsemel was involved in over a five-decade long career; interviews with Tsemel and her family members, including her husband, Michel Warschawski and their daughter and son, as well as interns and associates at Tsemel’s law firm; and closely follows two contemporary cases represented by Tsemel and her co-counsel, Tareq Barghout.
Learn more here.
with guest speaker: TBA
Contact info@saintmarks.org to be added to the Mideast Focus Ministry mailing list, or use this form. (Check the box marked “Mideast Focus.”)

Wajib: Streaming via Palestine Museum US
2021-02-20 09:00 - 11:00 UTC
WAJIB
Palestinian architect Shadi, living in Rome, returns home to Nazareth to help his father deliver his sister’s wedding invitations. As they two men try to bridge the gap between their different lives, they rediscover the importance of finding “home” and community.

Saturday, February 20, 2021
12:00 PM 2:00 PM
Palestine Museum US (map)

To register for this event please click here.
To view the film trailer please click here.
Abu Shadi (Mohammad Bakri) is a divorced father and school teacher in his mid-60s who lives in Nazareth with his daughter. Now that she is about to be married, the aging patriarch is anticipating life on his own. In preparation for the wedding, his architect son, Shadi (Saleh Bakri), who lives in Rome, travels to Nazareth to help the family. As Shadi and his father spend a day together hand-delivering wedding invitations to each guest in keeping with local Palestinian custom, the tense details of their fragile relationship come to a head, while each faces the reality of their very different lives. Performed brilliantly by actual father and son Mohammad and Saleh Bakri, Wajib demonstrates Annemarie Jacir’s filmmaking mastery through its style and subtleties.

Visit Gaza City with Eyewitness Palestine
2021-02-20 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Spend FEBRUARY in the Old City of Gaza
on a Virtual Delegation
with your Guide, Mohammed Rafik

Co-sponsored by We Are Not Numbers
Choose between one of the following four tours:
February 4th, 7th, 9th, 17th, or 20th
(Dates for this series have had to be postponed from January to February, due to the closures and school schedule changes in Gaza because of COVID-19.)
For this Virtual Delegation, our guide is Mohammed Rafik, a young writer and blogger from We Are Not Numbers. He will take you on a tour around Gaza City, where many of the oldest historical places lie in the Gaza Strip and firmly show Palestinians’ historical connection and right to this land.

You will be introduced to places like the Al Basha Palace, the Great Al Omari Mosque, and the Church of Saint Porphyrius. During the walk around, Mohammed will provide you with some interesting historical information about how these places were constructed and what they mean to the Palestinians in Gaza. We will also walk with Mohammed in the streets of Gaza’s old city and learn more about the people living there.

Read Woke with Cicely Lewis & Malaka Gharib
2021-02-20 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Read Woke with Cicely Lewis & Malaka Gharib
FREE with RSVP or suggested donation
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Join AANM and Dearborn Public Library for a conversation about representation, race and identity with Cicely Lewis and Malaka Gharib! Gharib is an NPR editor and author of the 2020 Arab American Book Award-winning graphic memoir I Was Their American Dream. Lewis is the founder of the Read Woke Challenge*, and also School Library Journal’s 2020 School Librarian of the Year.
*Dearborn Public Library hosts an all ages Read Woke Challenge, Jan. 11-Feb. 20, 2021. The Read Woke Challenge encourages community members to read “woke” books and engage in thoughtful dialogue surrounding the themes and topics addressed in the books. What are woke books? They are titles that focus on protagonists from underrepresented groups and/or challenge the status quo or social norms. Learn more or take the Read Woke Challenge
For questions, e-mail Kathryn Grabowski, Curator of Public Programs at

Virtual Artist Talks - A Conversation with Raghda Zaiton
2021-02-21 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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Please join us for a conversation and an online art review with the Nablus (West Bank)-based Palestinian Artis and Al-Najah University art instructor Raghda Zaiton.

The Falafel Stand: Cooking Class
2021-02-22 17:00 - 19:30 UTC | the Pantry, 1417 NW 70th Street, Seattle, WA, 98117
In this class NADIA TOMMALIEH will teach you how to make pita sandwiches that will have you convinced you’ve traveled to the Mediterranean to eat them. You’ll learn about the history of the region as she shows you how to get the perfect puff on your homemade khubez (pita bread), and how to achieve flavorful, crispy, falafel every time. You’ll top your piping hot sandwiches with tarator (tahini garlic sauce), tatbeeleh (jalapeno lemon sauce), and tomato cucumber salad.
This is a live, hands-on cooking class held in your kitchen via Zoom. Class is meant to be as interactive as it would be at our table, with the instructor teaching you how to prepare each recipe. Each class ticket is for one kitchen, and we welcome group cooking on the same screen. To learn more about how class will go visit our FAQ PAGE.

You can find Nadia’s work on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/nadiatommalieh

Palestinian Fatayer: Hands On via ZOOM!
2021-02-22 17:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
The universal practicality of packing deliciousness into a portable dough package ranges from Cornish pasties to empanadas to fatayer, a type of savory pie eaten throughout the Middle East. In this class, NADIA TOMMALIEH will guide you through the Palestinian take on this most perfect of mezze. You’ll layer a citrusy spinach filling into dough triangles to make fatayer sabanekh, fold cheese and herbs into boat-shaped fatayer jebneh, and make open-faced spiced beef sfeeha.

The Wandering Palestinian: A Book talk by Author and Activist Anan Ameri
2021-02-25 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Chicago)
Join us for a conversation between Author and Activist Anan Ameri and Professor and Activist Nadine Naber
Dr. Anan Ameri is a scholar, author, activist, and community organizer. She is the founding Director of the Arab American National Museum (AANM) and Palestine Aid Society of America. She holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Jordan, an MA from Cairo University, and a PhD from Wayne State University in Detroit. She was a fellow at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, a visiting scholar in Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, and served as Interim Director of the Institute for Jerusalem Studies. The recipient of numerous awards, Anan was inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame in Lansing, Michigan in 2016 and received ACCESS’s Arab American of the Year award in 2020. She enjoys writing and has authored and edited several articles and publications. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Dr. Nadine Naber is Professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and the Global Asian Studies Program and holds an affiliation with the Department of Anthropology at UIC. Dr. Naber’s research interests lie at the intersections of transnational feminisms; women of color and queer of color theory; de-colonizing feminisms; empire studies; critical race studies; and Middle East Studies; and Arab American Studies. Dr. Naber is author of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism (NYU Press, 2012). She is co-editor of the books Race and Arab Americans (Syracuse University Press, 2008); Arab and Arab American Feminisms, winner of the Arab American Book Award 2012 (Syracuse University Press, 2010); and The Color of Violence (South End Press, 2006). Dr. Naber is an editorial board member of the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, the Journal of Palestine Studies, and Al-Shabakah. Dr. Naber co- founded Arab and Muslim American Studies (an Ethnic Studies unit within the Program in American Culture) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Naber’s current book in progress focuses on radical mothering in the context of protest movements of the Egyptian revolution and Chicago’s immigrant and people of color-based movements against state violence.

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-wandering-palestinian-a-book-talk-by-author-and-activist-anan-ameri-tickets-139806399705

Virtual Arabic Hosted by Muhammad Alaa Eddin
2021-02-25 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Let’s catch up peeps.

What we’re about

Ahlan wa sahlan! I’m 3laa’. Benjamin is the original Organizer for the group, and Islam (Sam) allowed me to take the lead after he moved away from Washington.
This group is created as a way for those who are studying and have a good foundation in Arabic to come and practice their speaking and listening skills in lively conversation.

Smithsonian Sampler Series: Tatreez
2021-02-26 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
For generations, Palestinian women have gathered with their daughters to work collectively on embroidery projects, bonding with one another over a cup of tea. Guided by Wafa Ghnaim, who began her training in embroidery with her mother at age 2, learn the basic Palestinian cross-stitch and how to create a tatreez sampler, using a standard size sheet of Aida cloth fabric and one that can incorporate numerous patterns and eventually become a wall-hanging.
If you have already begun a tatreez sampler, this workshop will teach you traditional patterns and stitching strategies to further develop your piece. You are not required to take all three workshops in this winter series (Jan. 29; Feb. 26; and March 12)—you may take one, or all. The purpose of the sampler series is to develop your stitching skills, introduce you to new patterns throughout the region’s history, as well as learn more about textiles produced in the Holy Land throughout the centuries.
Open to students of all skill levels, learn the history and meaning behind traditional Palestinian patterns, basics of transferring a pattern to fabric, threading a needle, various cross-stitching methodologies, how to keep the back of your cloth clean, color theory and design, project planning, and motif repetition. No experience is required.
Download the supply list for this class

Beyond the Two State Solution: Book Talk and Discussion
2021-02-27 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Jonathan Kuttab’s new book is a short introduction to the crisis in Palestine-Israel, which has been characterized by the competing visions of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism. While many thought the two-state solution would offer a resolution, Jonathan explains that the two-state solution (that he supported) is no longer viable. He suggests that any solution be predicated on the basic existential needs of the two parties, which he lays out in exceptional detail. He formulates a way forward for a one-state solution that challenges both Zionism and Palestinian nationalism. This book invites readers to begin a new conversation based on reality: two peoples will need to live together in some sort of unified state. It is balanced and accessible to neophytes and to experts alike.
Zoom Registration

Free Virtual Screening of the Film "Recollection" by Palestinian Director Kamal Aljafari
2021-02-27 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
To register for this event please click here.
To view the film trailer please click here.
The following description is by Shimrit Lee writing for Warscapes.com
About the Film

Kamal Aljafari remembers when Jaffa was transformed into civil war-torn Beirut. Under the direction of Menachem Golan, the production team of The Delta Force (1986) created urban mayhem, arranging for the explosion of real buildings in the staging of a fictional battle. Aljafari recalls standing on the side of the road with a group of other children, eagerly awaiting a glimpse of Chuck Norris racing by in a van with the name of their school, “St. Joseph,” printed on the door. Years later, while flipping through television channels in a hotel room in London, Aljafari was shocked to recognize this scene. He sat on the bed mesmerized, not by the action shots but by the background: a clear documentation of the Jaffa of his childhood, a city which has since been destroyed, renovated, gentrified and rebuilt beyond recognition.
Aljafari’s latest film Recollection is composed entirely of footage from Israeli and American fiction features shot in Jaffa from the 1960s to the 1990s, primarily of the so-called bourekas genre that dramatized tense romantic relationships between Mizrahi male “thugs” and Ashkenazi female elites. Jaffa provided the perfect setting to construct new Israeli narratives on top of emptied Palestinian ruins. As Aljafari explains, Palestinians were effectively “uprooted in reality and in fiction.” In Recollection, Aljafari removes the Israeli actors to give the stage to the people who appear by chance in the background of these shots, including both Palestinians and Iraqi Jews who were settled in the city, enacting what he describes as “cinematic justice.”
Aljafari was born in neighboring Ramle in 1972 and later emigrated to Germany to attend film school. His previous films include The Roof (2006), which follows him on a return visit to the homes of his parents and grandmother in Palestine, and Port of Memory (2009), which traces the eviction of his mother’s family from their home in Ajami. Aljafari’s dark humor and silent communication style liken his work to that of Palestinian filmmakers Elia Sulieman and Michel Khleifi.
Unlike his previous films, Recollection has no central protagonist. Aljafari moves through the found-footage, creating the illusion of a dreamer sleep-walking through the city with a handheld camera. While Aljafari sometimes describes this unseen cameraman as himself, each excavated memory is shared, belonging to his grandfather, his mother, his neighbors, and others who cannot return. Each footstep holds a certain urgency; as Aljafari explains, “I walk everywhere, sometimes hesitant and sometimes lost. I wander through the city; I wander through the memories. I film everything I encounter because I know it no longer exists. I return to a lost time.”

A Conversation with Gideon Levy - Haaretz Columnist and Member of Editorial Board
2021-02-28 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
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Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist and author who writes regularly for the newspaper Haaretz. His writings often focus on the daily lives and sufferings of ordinary Palestinians living under Israeli occupation and control in the West Bank and Gaza. His work raises sharp criticism from mainstream Israeli journalists and politicians who accuse him of being pro Palestinian and of treason.
During this one hour conversation with the Palestine Museum US, Levy will share his unique insights and perspective on issues related to the current Palestinian situation, including the obstacles and prospects for peace, the one/two-state solutions, the role of the Palestinian Authority, prospects for Palestinian unity, Israeli elections/politics, and Israel’s relations with the new Biden administration.

Arab Film Series Online: There Is A Field + Talkback
2021-02-28 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
3 p.m. EST Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021
Arab Film Series Online: There Is A Field (2020) dir. Jen Marlowe
Free with RSVP/$5 suggested donation
RSVP for streaming link
There Is A Field tells the story of Asel Asleh, an unarmed 17-year old Palestinian teenager who was murdered while participating in a demonstration calling for an end to Israeli occupation and settler-colonization.
A play turned performance-reading film, There Is A Field is performed by Black Lives Matter activists in the U.S., and is intercut with the activists’ own realizations of the parallels they see between Asel’s story and the experiences of BIPOC communities in the U.S. Amidst the ongoing Black Lives Matter uprising that reignited in recent months following the police murder of George Floyd, There Is A Field provides a unique and timely lens for discussing decolonization, Black liberation, Black-Palestinian solidarity and cross-movement organizing.
Following the screening, we are pleased to be joined by director Jen Marlowe for a talkback.
Palestine, U.S.A. / 70 minutes / Documentary, Performance / English
For questions, e-mail Dave Serio, Public Programming Specialist at dserio@accesscommunity.org.

Tatreez Workshops and Lectures by Tatreez and Tea - Ongoing
2021-03-01 - 2021-03-02
Your instructor is author and scholar Wafa Ghnaim, founder of Tatreez & Tea!
Tatreez & Tea’s mission is to preserve Palestinian embroidery and storytelling traditions in the diaspora. Tatreez & Tea is the first of it’s kind. When Wafa first founded Tatreez & Tea in 2016, she was the only educator solely focused on Palestinian embroidery, traveling the US and the world. Now, new local initiatives, culture bearers, “tatreez circles”, and mentors are emerging from communities around the world like never before. The tatreez revolution has gained a beautiful momentum and now is the time to join.
Wafa’s goal in her educational classes are three-fold: educate students from art history and oral history perspectives that preserve the meanings, stories and symbolism of traditional Palestinian embroidery motifs; teach versatile skills that allow students to eventually produce large independent projects; encourage students to become creative and grow beyond simply abiding by traditional embroidery principles.
Click here for upcoming events!
https://www.tatreezandtea.com/events

4.4 DIALOGUES ON THE ART OF ARAB FASHION: WHAT EGYPTIAN DRESS TELLS US ABOUT SYMBOLS
2021-03-02 08:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
4.4 DIALOGUES ON THE ART OF ARAB FASHION: WHAT EGYPTIAN DRESS TELLS US ABOUT SYMBOLS
Event Description: This conversation with anthropologist and author, Dr Andrea Rugh, is based upon Andrea’s book “Reveal and Conceal”, which studies the complex cultural expressions of clothes and dress in Egypt. Dr Andrea analyses contemporary social meanings found in the symbols of dress and shows the way groups and individuals use the symbols like a language to reveal or conceal significant aspects of their identities.
Date: 2nd March 2021
Time: 11 am NYC, 4 pm London, 8 pm Dubai
Tickets: Donation
Students: If you are a student, or member of academia please register here to receive your complimentary registration links.
Registering will not only give you access to the live session, but also a recorded version to catch up on in your own time.

We Want Representation: Students Speak Up for MENA Category
2021-03-02 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)
Join Undergraduate Student Government and the Arab American Cultural Center to share your voices, your stories, and your perspective on why a MENA category is important at the U of Illinois. Speak about your experiences and what you would like to see take shape on campus to support MENA students.
Event will be co-hosted by students Sarah Hassan and Malak Kanan
Real-time captioning will be provided
for questions email us at: arabamcc@uic.edu
Event is being co-sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine – UIC, Students for Justice in Palestine – UIUC, Arab Student Association at UIUC, Relief or Yemen at UIC, Palestine Children’s Relief Fund at UIC, Muslim Student Association at UIC

Abdul El-Sayed and Micah Johnson (livestream) A Citizen’s Guide to Medicare for All
2021-03-02 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Doctors Abdul El-Sayed and Micah Johnson join us via livestream to present a simple guide to America’s most debated policy-in-waiting. Using their book Medicare for All: A Citizen’s Guide as a base, they relate how, although healthcare policy is notoriously complex, what Americans want is simple: good healthcare that’s easy to use and doesn’t break the bank. And two-thirds of Americans want the government to provide universal health coverage. Is Medicare for All the solution? El-Sayed and Johnson offer a serious examination of this complex subject, offering viewpoints on how Medicare for All would transform the way we give, receive, and pay for healthcare in America. Don’t miss this conversation that is perhaps more significant than ever before.
Abdul El-Sayed, MD, DPhil, is a physician, epidemiologist, public health expert, and progressive activist. He rebuilt Detroit’s Health Department after the City’s bankruptcy as the youngest big-city health commissioner in a major US city. He ran for Governor of Michigan in 2018 on a state-level single-payer platform in a bid endorsed by Senator Bernie Sanders, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, The Nation, and Current Affairs. He holds a doctorate in Public Health from University of Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a medical degree from Columbia University.

Policing Somali Refugees: Somali Refugee Resistance to State Violence
2021-03-03 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
For Somali refugees, San Diego’s City Heights neighborhood and the camp at Dadaab, Kenya are connected carceral spaces. Both are governed by militarized techniques and technologies of surveillance and militarism, and both demand counter-technologies through which refugees survive and even thrive.

Mohamed Abumaye is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, San Marcos.
Additional co-sponsor: UW Center for Human Rights

Palestinian Fatayer with Nadia Tommalieh
2021-03-04 17:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
The universal practicality of packing deliciousness into a portable dough package ranges from Cornish pasties to empanadas to fatayer, a type of savory pie eaten throughout the Middle East. In this class, NADIA TOMMALIEH will guide you through the Palestinian take on this most perfect of mezze. You’ll layer a citrusy spinach filling into dough triangles to make fatayer sabanekh, fold cheese and herbs into boat-shaped fatayer jebneh, and make open-faced spiced beef sfeeha.
This is a live, hands-on cooking class held in your kitchen via Zoom. Class is meant to be as interactive as it would be at our table, with the instructor teaching you how to prepare each recipe. Each class ticket is for one kitchen, and we welcome group cooking on the same screen. To learn more about how class will go visit our FAQ PAGE.

There are two options for gathering ingredients for this class! You can shop for your own ingredients or we are happy to pre-measure ingredients and assemble them into a 4-serving kit. And if you like to sip wine while you cook, consider adding a lovingly paired bottle with your kit!
You can preview the ingredients and equipment needed by FOLLOWING THIS LINK. One week before class we will send out a detailed shopping list, and a few days before class we will email you a detailed recipe packet and Zoom link. All classes are listed in Pacific Time.

Movie: EAST JERUSALEM/WEST JERUSALEM via St Marks
2021-03-05 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
EAST JERUSALEM/WEST JERUSALEM
American, Israeli, and Palestinian musicians record a new album. And, in defiance of Israel’s dark realities, start a new program for children living under occupation.
Israeli singer-songwriter David Broza sets out to realize his dream of cooperation and dialog between Israelis and Palestinians through music. During 8 days and nights of joint creation by his mixed Jewish and Muslim band in an East Jerusalem studio, a hopeful message of equality and unity arises. Featuring Steve Earle and Mira Awad.
Learn more here.
with guest speaker: TBA
Contact info@saintmarks.org to be added to the Mideast Focus Ministry mailing list, or use this form. (Check the box marked “Mideast Focus.”)

Palestine Writes Cultural Spotlight: Ibtisam Azem: The Book of Disappearance
2021-03-06 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
We are excited to announce the Palestine Writes Cultural Spotlight. These zoom webinar events will offer registration and live-streaming on facebook.
This month, we are featuring Ibtisam Azem and her incredible novel, The Book of Disappearance. The event will be co-sponsored by the Institute of Palestinian Studies and moderated by Laura Al Bast, a digital editor at the Institute for Palestinian Studies. Please register for the event here!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrZw-Cv6Q2BdV7p_7kPdVNNUIQcM9KGV7Hve4gBt8ntYBOoA/viewform

Eggstraordinary Objects: ostrich eggs as luxury items in the ancient Mediterranean
2021-03-06 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Dr. Tamar Hodos, University of Bristol
Decorated ostrich eggs were traded as luxury items from the Middle East to the western Mediterranean during the second and first millennia BCE. The eggs were engraved, painted, and occasionally embellished with ivory, precious metals and faience fittings. While archaeologists note their presence as unusual vessels in funerary and dedicatory contexts, little is known about how or from where they were sourced, decorated and traded. An ongoing project between researchers at Bristol University and the British Museum has established techniques to identify where the eggs originated and how they were decorated. This talk shares the results of our study, revealing the complexity of the production, trade, and economic and social values of luxury organic items between competing cultures of the ancient Mediterranean world.
Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMscuGhrzMvGdB8aReWTG8Q5DLaMX2vLsSP

Part of Creating Art with Islamic Patterns Series
2021-03-06 14:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Ages 12 and older.
Presented by Amina Quraishi.
Arabesque art is one of the main components of Islamic art and consist of rhythmic linear motifs with floral and vegetal foliage. Learn to draw an arabesque pattern with step-by-step instructions and paint with watercolor.
Supplies needed: Pencil, ruler, printed handout (this will be emailed to you).
Optional supplies: Tracing paper, tape, art or watercolor paper, watercolors or coloring medium of choice.
Please register. You will be sent a Zoom link.

Virtual Art Exhibition: Legacy Trilogy: Past Edition
2021-03-07 - 2021-03-08
ArteEast is proud to present the Legacy Trilogy series of exhibitions celebrating the organization’s legacy as a forum for contemporary art practices from the Middle East North Africa region. This fundraising exhibition consists of three parts: Past, Present, and Future.

Women’s History Month English-Arabic Storytime Online
2021-03-08 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
She Persisted and Think Big, Little One with Sari Mira

Join us for a Women’s History Month-themed English-Arabic Storytime from the comfort of your home! Children ages 2-6 and their parents are invited to tune in as resident storyteller Sari Mira reads the books She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World and Think Big, Little One, in both English and Arabic.
She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World introduces young readers to thirteen inspirational women who never took no for an answer, and who always, inevitably and without fail, persisted.
Think Big, Little One introduces eighteen trailblazing women, ranging from writers to inventors, artists to scientists; like influential modernist painter Mary Blair, environmental activist Wangari Maathai and architect Zaha Hadid.

The Storytime will go up at 1 p.m. EST on Monday, March 8 on our Storytime page, where you can also check out previous Online Storytimes.

Arabic Conversation Hours Spring 2021 جلسة الحوار بالعربية
2021-03-09 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Chicago)
Join us for a fun hour of conversation in Arabic. Do you want to practice your Arabic without being judged? Do you want to learn some new words or ways of saying things? Do you want to meet other people who are trying to learn or strengthen their Arabic?
Pour You coffee or tea and let’s talk
You will receive a zoom link after you RSVP
March 9 @ 2:30-3:30
April 8 @ 1-2
For assistance or accessibility, email us at arabamcc@uic.edu

RSVP
